Punching machine for statistical and like cards



April 8 1924.

M. LEBEES PUNGHING MACHINE FOR STATISTICAL AND LIKE CARDS Filed Dec. 56 1.922 5 Sheets-Sheet l In venioz" April 8, 1924. 1,489,534

' M. LEBEES PUNCHING MACHINE FOR STATISTICAL AND LIKE CARDS Filed Dec. 50, 1922 a Sheets-Sheet 2 Fig.3.

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M. LEBEIS PUNCHING MACHiNE FOR STATISTICALAND LIKE CARDS 1922 5 Sheets-Sheet 5 Filed Dec. DO,

[n ven Z02" Patented A r. 8, 1924.

mnnzrm LEBEIS, or BERLIN FRIEDENAU v A 1,4 9,534 PATENT OFFICE.

GERMANY, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGN- Illl[EN1S, 1L0 NAAMLObZE VENNOOTSCHAP MACHINA MAATSCHAPPIJ' VOOR HAN- DEL EN INDUSTRIE, OF'AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS.

'PUNOHIN'G rmcnmn FOR s'mrrsmcn. AND LIKE CARDS.

Application filed December Octohem'20thjTTI9I9; madness; Britain 91L Again, by;

Nvember27th 1922;:1nd-0f Which thelfol-f groupings such as'A. B, C and D (Fig. 6)

1O lowing is a specification.

This invention relates tom machine... for;

punching statistical and like cards on which numerals and letters are expressed by the different distribution of apertures over a definite'number of positions, and consists in the provision of selecting elements in the form of rollers serving as a support for card punches and having recesses into which unv selected punching elements can recede, the

ated by clock-worker by the mechanism of a counting device. p Fig. 1 of the drawings represents a-verti cal sectionof the machinetaken transversely of the selecting rollers,

Fig. 2, another vertical section of the same taken at right angles to Fig. 1,

Fig. 3, a horizontal section on the line 'A-B of Fig. 1, and

Fig. '4, a plan of rollers removed. p

Fig. 5 is a rear view showing the gearing of therollers, and Fig. 6, a front view of the indicating arrangement together with an example of a card showing punch-holes to represent the indicated numerals.

Fig. 7 shows a development of one of the selecting rollers together with the punch marks it produces, and

Fig. 8, another development with a different arrangement of punch marks to suit the same urpose.

To ena e the cards used for statistical and like purposes to be sorted automatically, they are sometimes punched with apertures which are distributed differently over a definite number of positions, so that by means of a few feelers admitted through such apertures in different groupings, a large number of receivers may be individually selected for the reception of the cards. For instance single apertures and diflerent verthe device with theso, 1922. Serial No. 610,013

tical groupings of a plurality of apertures v along four horizontal lines'LII, III and IV- may be used to obtain over ten different classifications or, if the ca ds instead of or p in addition to the sorting, are used for I calculating purposes, to express the numerals 19 and 0, as shown in Figs. 7and 8. arranging several vertical together, any desired number may be expressed. in order to enable such cards to be punched by means of'elements which are set automatically by clock-work, say, in a machine ifor'checking workmens time. or by the mechanism of a calculating or like 1 machine, the following arrangement is pro- 7 vided:- v -F or expressing. four-figurednumhers, the punching device is furnished with sixteen rollers heingrexcept 1812 't eyp unc ng 1 1 0- punches which are arranged so as to ment, quite free'so that they can be oper fer serted through a slit 14 between the die 13 1 v and a stripping block 12 whichlis connected to the die so as to move together with the same. 1

For selecting the different punches for operation there is, for each vertical row of punches, a roller composed of four notched discs 4 keyed in juxtaposition-to a shaft 3 which is mounted in frame members 1 and 2. Each roller cooperates with fourlevers which rock about a shaft 5-and' which are "formed with hammer-headsQQOTesting on different punches. For convenience in the j;

construction, there are twosets' of single;

armed levers 7, and two sets of bell-crank levers 8. Each lever is formed with a nosepiece 9 which is held close to the outer circumference of one of the discs 4-, and the lever is therefore PIQVGIltQd,-jfr01l1 rocking except when the nose-piece is faced by one of the notches in the discs.

When a card is inserted in the slit 14 and the die 13 is raised, thepunches. will be engaged by the card. Each punch whose lever is supported by thedisc 4 will oppose or like machine so as cording to Fig. 8 has the advantage that all the numerals are represented by no more than two holes.

The levers are supported by the punches and are normally out of touch'with the discs l. The rollers are therefore, except at the moment of punching the card, comv pletely free and can be geared to a clockwork or to the mechanism of a calculating to be set thereby. For this purpose three of the shafts are fitted with one-tooth wheels 17 which at each revolution of the shaft advance the next shaft by one number through the medium of an idle wheel 16 and a. gear 15secured to the next shaft. The gearing ratio depends on the nature of-the counting. For ordinary calculations or numberings the ratio is 1 :10, while for the expression of time it is correspondingly modified it the front end of the shafts there are indicating discs 18 the numbers of which pass behind windows in a plate 19. The punch marks shown in the card in Fig. 6 represent the-number exhibited by the indicating'plate 19 according to the scheme shown in Fig. 7.

Instead of cards, along strip may be used which is passed through the slit 14 for punching.

- I claim g 1. A punching device for statistical and like cards comprising a reciprocating' die, a plurality of axially guided and loosely suspended punches arranged in rows above Those punches for operation ineach row,

said die for co-operation with the latter, a,

rotatable selecting roller for each row of punches, a rocking lever-placed between each punch and itsselecting roller so as to support the punch jby abutment against 'the roller, the roller leave individual. punches unsupported in certain positions of rotary adjustment, and connection between the different rollers for collective rotary adjustment;

3. A punching device for statistical and by a. cardplaced on the reciprocating die,

the

being notched so as 'to.

like cards, comprising a reciprocating die, I

10 above said-die be engaged and raised the punches being arranged in rows of four so that all the numerals and zero can be represented by different selections of a rocking lever supported on each punch, a notched selecting roller for each row of punches, such roller being arranged so as to form an abutment for the levers and cause a'punching of the card by stopping the punch movement except when the levers register with the notches, and gears connected to the different rollers so that they can be set in unison and so that the apertures punched in the cards will represent series of numbers. f

MARTIN LEBEIS. 

